Obamacare relieved financial strain of those closest to the federal poverty line
The Affordable Care Act - or Obamacare - most benefitted those closest to the federal poverty line, a study led...
ERS partners with 3D Systems/Simbionix on simulation technology for EBUS training
The European Respiratory Society (ERS) and 3D Systems have signed a collaboration agreement to provide simulation equipment and event services...
Lung cancer screening guidelines inadequate for high-risk minorities
Credit: UIC Data from a lung cancer screening program at the University of Illinois at Chicago provides evidence that national...
Researchers estimate higher death toll from Hurricane Maria than previously thought
The number of people who died as a result of Hurricane Maria -- which hit Puerto Rico on September 20,...
The US has experienced a spike in violent and unintentional injuries
AURORA, Colo. (Aug. 2, 2018) - The U.S. has experienced a disturbing increase in violent and unintentional injuries over the...
Novel PET imaging method could track and guide therapy for type 1 diabetes
Credit: J Bini et al., Yale University, New Haven, CT. RESTON, VA - Researchers have discovered a new nuclear medicine...
Insulin resistance under-diagnosed in non-diabetics with Parkinson’s disease
Amsterdam, NL, August 2, 2018 - Almost two-thirds of non-diabetic patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) may be insulin resistant, despite...
New light shed on relationship between calorie-burning fat and muscle function
Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON - Abundant in human babies and small mammals, brown adipose tissue (BAT), or...
Big-data study pinpoints more than 150 genes associated with atrial fibrillation
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Drawing on genomic data from more than one million individuals, researchers from the University of Michigan...
Tropical forest seeds use three strategies to survive
Credit: Rodrigo Aragua/AFP The oldest living seeds found on Earth germinated after resting more than 30,000 years in Arctic soils....
Insilico to present at the 2nd Annual Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain in Healthcare Forum
Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company specializing in the application of...
Safety claims up in smoke
In direct contradiction to marketing efforts claiming that hookah (water pipe) smoking is less hazardous to health than cigarettes, a...
Newly discovered crossbill species numbers few
Credit: C.W. Benkman As might be expected for a recently discovered bird species in the continental United States - only...
DIY robots help marine biologists discover new deep-sea dwellers
Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute While the cold and airless deep sea is inhabitable for humans, it is filled with delicate...
Harmful dyes in lakes, rivers can become colorless with new, sponge-like material
Credit: Kiyomi Taguchi/University of Washington Dyes are widely used in industries such as textiles, cosmetics, food processing, papermaking and plastics....
Chirality switching in biomineral structures
Researchers at McGill University have discovered a mechanism by which helical biomineral structures can be synthesized to spiral clockwise or...
Computer simulations predict the spread of HIV
Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., August 1, 2018 -- In a recently published study in the journal...
What can the herpesvirus teach us about oral inflammation?
Credit: UIC/Chris Bevel A $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help University of Illinois at Chicago...
Microscopic imaging pierces the ‘black box’ of cancer bone metastasis
Scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have engineered a system allowing microscopic monitoring and imaging of...
NSF backs strategy to reconstruct cancer cells’ evolution
Credit: Mika Nakhleh The National Science Foundation has awarded two grants for a combined $1.5 million to Rice University computational...
